Natalie Portman found love in an unexpected place after her split.

In fact, the Black Swan star shared when she met Rihanna for the first time amid her divorce from Benjamin Millepied, the interaction was exactly what she needed.

“I think every woman going through a divorce should get to have Rihanna say to her that she’s a bad b—h,” Natalie told Jimmy Fallon during a July 15 appearance on The Tonight Show. “It was—it was exactly what I needed.”

And after Jimmy played the clip of the “Umbrella” singer and Natalie meeting for the first time—during which Rihanna told Natalie she’s “one of the hottest b—hes in Hollywood forever” and that she doesn’t normally get excited about meeting people but that Natalie was an exception—the May December actress jokingly brushed away a tear.

“It was,” she said, “a formative moment in my life.”

Natalie’s reference to her divorce marks her first public comment on the matter since she and Benjamin—with whom she shares son Aleph, 12, and daughter Amalia, 7—finalized their divorce in March after more than a decade of marriage.